Andre Balazs Quotes

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

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• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Know
  • Personality
  • Survival

• Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Economy

• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thought
  • Passionate
  • WIld

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Always
  • Craftsmanship

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Tiger
  • Magnificent

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• I am an inventor of music.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Inventor

• Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Sciences

• Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

  

  Ken Follett

• My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Life
  • Grandmother
  • Empathy

• Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering
  • Bodhisattva

• I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • Water